Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: select SUNXI_CCU_MULT for sun8i-a83t

[Maxime Ripard]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 05/23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> An alternative would be to remove all the dependencies as 'lib-y'
> >> in the Makefile and remove the individual Kconfig symbols. That
> >> way, we would always build all of them when CONFIG_SUNXI_CCU
> >> is enabled, but the linker would drop the ones that do not get
> >> referenced.
> >
> > In this case you're right, and we should change them to lib-y in
> > the Makefile and then let the linker figure this all out. No more
> > dependency patches. I think we only need to do this sort of
> > Kconfig stuff when we want to make a library .ko file that each
> > SoC specific driver depends on for common code.
> >
> > It would be cool if the build system could figure that all out
> > for us, and let us have something like modlib-y that makes it a
> > library (archive) if all objects depending on it are builtin and
> > we have CONFIG_MODULES=n, or makes it into an object file if
> > something is builtin that depends on it, or makes it into a
> > module if everything that depends on it is a module.
> 
> In this case, there are no loadable modules, the sunxi clk drivers
> can only be built-in, which should simplify the problem a lot.

Using the linker to drop the useless stuff seems like a good idea. Do
you want to send a patch for it?

Maxim

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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